[jake21]

So I tried the black dragon and did indeed win the fight with no loss (mage impossible); however black dragon did not give me first move. Still it did keep me from being 'last move' which was enough to turn the tide. Oh well live and learn. The one thing that was a bit weird is that my warrior (impossible) really struggled on the mage tower; so i was expecting it to be near impossible for my mage (impossible) yet it was very easy.

Originally Posted by atlatea

Infernal dragon currently is worthless, ancient phoenix is way better, like 2 times the infernal dragon with almost half mana required.

Scrounger fight is not hard to win, but it's hard to win for no loss fight.

To win initiative againts scrounger, bring black dragon (also rune mage for no loss fight, why? i guarantee you'll lose some of your black dragons) and blue dragon pet. To super win initiative, beside BD+ blue pet, you must have warrior caution 3 (+3 initiative at turn 1), enough to beat all scrounger units initiative except her ogres (only black dragon and posibly unicorn/red dragon can beat ogres initiative).

For non mage, to make your rune mage 100% survive astral attack at round 1 (even with 70% astral resistance, her goblin shamans can kill 14 rune mage with 3x astral attack), cast target to your stack. Well, you have another astral attack from orc shaman (luckily this one is much much weaker). For mage, since mage can double cast, why not target then sheep her orc shaman. You can also phantom, though it's a gamble, because it's not guaranteed that those shamans will attack the phantom.

Note that astral attack from orc shaman is much much weaker than goblin shaman, so you can ignore them, though in prolonged battle these orc shamans can make your no loss fight to become loss fight.